Photograph of Milford Station on the Trent Valley Railway

Photograph of Milford Station on the Trent Valley Railway

Photograph of Milford Station on the Trent Valley Railway, 1892

SRO D5234
©Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Archive Service

The Trent Valley Railway opened in 1847 and nationally was probably the most important railway to be constructed in the county in the decade between 1844 and 1855. Its purpose was to shorten the distance between London and Lancashire, by-passing Birmingham, for the transport of cotton manufactures. In Staffordshire it was particularly notable for the Shugborough Tunnel which had to be constructed at the insistence of the Earl of Lichfield so that the trains could not be seen travelling through Shugborough Park.

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